Thesaurus / woolgathering
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synonyms for woolgathering
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
See also synonyms for: woolgatherings
- careless
- distracted
- inattentive
- sloppy
- unmindful
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep on the job
- bemused
- dreamy
- heedless
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- mooning
- moony
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- not on the job
- oblivious
- out of it
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remiss
- slack
- unwitting
- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- relaxing
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
- absorbed
- bemused
- distracted
- engaged
- engrossed
- fascinated
- forgetful
- obsessed
- absent
- abstracted
- bugged
- daydreaming
- immersed
- lost
- mooning
- removed
- spellbound
- absent-minded
- airheaded
- asleep
- deep
- distrait
- faraway
- have on the brain
- heedless
- hung up
- inconscient
- intent
- lost in thought
- moony
- oblivious
- rapt
- spread-out
- taken up
- unaware
- wrapped-up
- any old way
- any which way
- asleep at switch
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- culpable
- daydreaming
- defaultant
- delinquent
- derelict
- dilatory
- disregardful
- fainéant
- forgetful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- lax
- lazy
- neglectful
- negligent
- regardless
- slack
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slothful
- slow
- tardy
- uninterested
- unmindful
- pipe dream
- reverie
- conceiving
- dream
- fancy
- fancying
- imagination
- imagining
- musing
- phantasm
- phantasy
- stargazing
- trip
- vision
- wish
- castle in the air
- figment of imagination
- fond hope
- fool's paradise
- head trip
- in a zone
- mind trip
- pie in the sky
- indifference
- neutrality
- objectivity
- remoteness
- coldness
- coolness
- disinterestedness
- dreaminess
- impartiality
- nonpartisanship
- preoccupation
- reverie
- unconcern
- brown study
- incuriosity
- aloofness
- coldness
- coolness
- disinterestedness
- distance
- dreaminess
- impartiality
- indifference
- neutrality
- nonpartisanship
- objectivity
- preoccupation
- reverie
- unconcern
- brown study
- incuriosity
- contemplation
- fantasy
- meditation
- trance
- absorption
- abstraction
- detachment
- dreaminess
- dreaming
- inattention
- muse
- musing
- pensiveness
- phantasy
- preoccupation
- study
- thought
- trip
- absent-mindedness
- castle-building
- castles in the air
- fool's paradise
- head trip
- mind trip
- pipe dream
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How to use woolgathering in a sentence
Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment!
THE WORSHIPPERSDAMON FRANCIS KNIGHTI trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
THE BLACK DOUGLASS. R. CROCKETTBut surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering.
OLD JUNKH. M. TOMLINSONWoolgathering, Ben had missed some remark about Artemis' rigging.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNAmid that universal blaze and downright pour of stifling heat, his mind was gone woolgathering back into the old New Forest.
CRADOCK NOWELL, VOL. 3 (OF 3)RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMOREMaster Pennybet, in the common way of tired children, finished the day in listless woolgathering.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMONDSuch strange alleys do my thoughts run along when I am woolgathering in the field.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMONDMrs. Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her.
THE FIGHTING CHANCEROBERT W. CHAMBERSIn a woolgathering way, the animal acknowledged Reuben's feet, but had no time for them.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNWith his wits thus woolgathering as he walked, he one day suddenly tumbled into a pit.
A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE, WITH SELECTIONSISABEL FLORENCE HAPGOODWORDS RELATED TO WOOLGATHERING
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep on the job
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- dreamy
- heedless
- inattentive
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- mooning
- moony
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- not on the job
- oblivious
- out of it
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remiss
- slack
- sloppy
- unmindful
- unwitting
- woolgathering
- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- relaxing
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
- woolgathering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.